Hi,I'm recently got into comics and am lost as to how I should branch out. I'm into Emily the strange and Yhonen Vasquese ( Squee, Johnny, ect). I have everything to date from these and would like to get into more. But with so many options out there I'm totally lost! So any tips as to anything else I might like? Outside of comics I'm a 26 year old female,who is into scifi and some action movies....The way I moved into comics was by buying an Aliens Vrs Preditor book at a local book fair, I was trying to find more and got told I might like Emily and after talking Zimm for a while also got pointed towards the vasquese comics! A good day!

It sounds like you've been reading a lot of comics in the gothic genre, as Slave Labor Graphics publishes all of Yhonen Vasquez's work. I'd be willing to bet that you would enjoy the Courtney Crurin series by Ted Naifeh. Look it up and see if is to your liking.

If you're interested in stepping out and seeing what else is out there, Fables, Y:The Last Man, and Sandman are epic journeys available in trade format. If you like a little horror in your reading, I would highly suggest the post-apocalyptic The Walking Dead or the thrilling Locke & Key. Invincible or Dynamo 5 are great superhero reads. Then there's Chew and Proof which are quite refreshing reads too. Echo is a comic that features a great female cast, and Brian Wood's Local is another with a fun female lead. Mouse Guard and The Stuff of Legend are other books that I would also recommend.

For creepy, morbid hilariousness, check out Fell and Wormwood. Fucking great. And for creepy, morbid disturbingness anti/superhero, check out Demo by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (vol 1 is out in trade, singles being done currently). Demo is sad and freaky. There's often a trend in comics to do the realistic superheroes; Demo does that in a way that is much more believable than others.

"If I could go back in time and like tell 11 year old me that like not only do you get to go to Comic Con but you go every year. So much so that you get greeted by Stan Lee when you show up. And 11 year old me would be like - How did we get so fat?" - Kevin Smith